Former Bangladeshi prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia


Dhaka, Bangladesh. 4 may 2013. Begum Khaleda Zia (born 15 August 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who was Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. When she took office in 1991, she was the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world (after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988–1990) to head a democratic government as prime minister. The widow of President Ziaur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1981, she leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which he founded in the late by leadfoto/alamy


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